Coin Archives - Detecting Finds

Penny of Harold I

A “Jewel Cross” type penny of Harold I. The reverse reads LEOFPINE ON SCROB giving the moneyer as Leofwine and

This shilling is the first example of Irish emergency “gunmoney” coinage to be recorded by the PAS in Cambridgeshire. Consequently

The PAS record describes the coin as ” in poor condition, corroded and incomplete, missing part of the outer circle. There

This George II halfpenny with grooves filed around the edge has been designated a Find of Note of Regional Importance.

Penny of Edward the Martyr. Reverse reads LEVIG N – O LINDCOL giving Leofwig as the moneyer and Lincoln the

Penny of Jaenberht, Archbishop of Canterbury (765-792), with Offa of Mercia as Overlord (c.780-792). Found near Dorchester in 2019.

Gallo-Belgic Stater, class Ab, laureate head of Apollo left. Reverse: horse left, pellets and ornaments around, rosette below. Found in

This extremely rare penny of Ecgberht was found in North Yorkshire in 2022. It’s importance stems from the fact that

This Angel of Richard III was found by Mariusz Clepluch during a detecting rally on 21 April 2022in a freshly-ploughed

A Merovingian tremissis of the “mint and moneyer” or “National Series” type dating to c. AD580-670. It is the first